In order to provide its external customers with access to AIS services, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) in the United Kingdom chooses GateHouse to deliver a web-based AIS service built upon its existing UK AIS Network.

As part of the MCA's prevention strategy it maintains an AIS Network infrastructure covering the entire coastline of the UK.

The existing network consists of 51 shore stations, an AIS Service Management centre and 50 operator workstations at its MRCCs. The system provides AIS services to all of the MCA's internal stakeholders.
 

Having identified the need for an enhanced web-based system to provide its external stakeholders with the possibility to receive, view and analyse AIS information, the MCA has chosen GateHouse to supply the solution. The GateHouse web-based AIS display and advanced statistics system fully meets the MCA's requirements, which among other things mandate that the software is based on recognized standards, standard operating systems and an open architecture which allows uncomplicated expansion and integration.

 

GateHouse will deploy an AIS solution that provides web-based access to both internal and external users allowing them to track and monitor AIS-equipped vessels in real-time, replay stored ship movements and importantly to the MCA and its external stakeholders carry out a range of statistical analyses on maritime traffic around the UK.
 

MCA Head of Technical Development, Steve Brown said of the award: “The GateHouse proposal offered the Maritime and Coastguard Agency the opportunity to implement a commercially off the shelf (COTS) solution which should provide enhanced mechanisms for AISService provision to our stakeholders.

GateHouse CEO, Michael Bondo Andersen: “We are very pleased that the MCA has chosen us to fulfil this contract. We believe that the service oriented approach the MCA has adopted will become increasingly predominant for national maritime authorities and we are therefore very satisfied to find that our software is such a perfect match to the MCA's requirements..

 

About the Maritime & Coastguard Agency

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency is responsible throughout the United Kingdom for implementing the Government's maritime safety policy. That includes co-ordinating search and rescue at sea through Her Majesty's Coastguard, and checking that ships meet UK and international safety rules. The MCA works to prevent the loss of lives at the coast and at sea to ensure that ships are safe, and to prevent coastal pollution.

Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas

For more information, please visit www.mcga.gov.uk

 

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